Hoyer And Cantor Battle Over IMF Funding On House Floor (VIDEO)

At the end of every week, the majority leader and minority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives hold a public conversation on the floor about the next week's schedule. When the interlocutors were Democrat Steny Hoyer (Md.) and Republican Roy Blunt (Mo.) the friendship between the two, despite their ideological differences, was obvious.

Now that Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia has replaced Blunt, it's not so plain.

Yesterday's colloquy featured a chilly but polite back and forth, with Cantor battering Hoyer for Democratic attempts to include a $108 billion line of credit for the International Monetary Fund in the war supplemental bill. The Senate voted earlier this month to include the line of credit, but the measure has met resistance in the House from Republicans and even some Democrats.

The Hill pulled the transcript of the exchange and C-SPAN provided the Huffington Post with the video.

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[brandnewstuff]

I did not see the video- Steny Hoyer has respect- Cantor- get a shoe and throw hard

[Lemmy]

F the IMF.

[ladybastet]

Is it me or does Eric Cantor have this demeanor of superiority and condescension about him? I've always thought this but have never noticed anyone else mention it. The way he comes across makes me want to jump through the screen and smack him, even he's just doing an interview for CNN.

[swanie]

No, you hit the nail on the head.

I'll bet that his mom and dad are cousins.
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[plaidsportcoat]

no, he's one of the chosen people. they don't do that for fear of tay-sachs.

[eeyore5662]

It's not you, trust me.

[EspritDeVoltaire]

I always thought of him as an irritating little dweeb along the lines of Eddie Haskell on "Leave It To Beaver".

[ladybastet]

Haha! Okay, yeah I could see that.

[mollymac]

yes, that works!

[JustinKase]

and Steny Hoyer is too astute a politician to endure a lot of that. Cantor is out of his league here.

[Actionmac]

Your on target with your perception­...

He is rebirth of former PA Senator Rick (Sanatorium) Santorum and soon will go the way of (Sanatorium) Santorum. Young elected redumblicans burning out their careers for old outdated ideology and tactics... just OLD and MUSTY thinking.

[Compgeek]

This is what is wrong with this country and Congress.
The discussion was about funding IMF and how to best safeguard OUR, the American people's money to make sure the IMF funding is given and how to stimulate the global financial market. The basic fact if poorer countries who are in a financial depression, can borrow money to buy goods and services from American companies and conglamorates. Which in turn the money we pay IMF, we get back with interest.

Mr. Cantor, the typical Republican hoodwinking, wanted to talk about something totally irrelevant issue on what the bill was debated on. We get it Cantor...y­ou don't like Pelosi and want to take a slam at her, but this was a joke...you are a joke. You have been playing this game to stump the democrats for the last 2 years that you have been RNC whip boy....how has it worked for you and your party? You have lost more seats and even the NY-20 and IL-5 who are Republican districts. The party of NO does not get it. You are there to do our work, and not to play a pissing match.
Also, shame on Hoyer to going on with the pissing match.

Congress..­..GROW UP and do YOUR job!

[Girl28]

I just hit where the word "transcript" is highlighted in the last sentence, and read the transcript. It's not that long.

[glorysong]

What happen to the video?

[ladybastet]

Ryan,
Thank you so much for posting this. Watching Hoyer's patience get tried by Eric Cantor is enlightening to be sure. Personally, I don't think I could have held my composure for so long had I been the one dealing with that pompous jerk.

That said, if there is a way to edit this clip down it would be very helpful so that we could watch it without searching. If this isn't possible then I'm glad we at least have access to it.

Partisan politics dominates Cantor's every waking moment it seems.

[AGarcia]

They REALLY hate Nancy Pelosi! (Listening to Boehner's earlier comments)

[LooktotheLeft]

If you look at the white space where clip is supposed to be REEAALLL Hard, you can just about make out Eric in the empty void of space....w­here he normally resides

[LooktotheLeft]

I don't have to see it to know that Eric is having his m*enstrul cycle. Every month at this same time, he get his women's panties that he's wearing in an uproar and, it's like, let the histrionics begin.

[BannedFromCommenting]

You have got to be kidding! Why is it that when men have a tantrum fit, men associate it with menstruation?
The emotional behavior is coming out of those men's bodies all by their lonesome!! So stop the OLD stereotypical labeling that anything not deemed responsible mature behavior, must be related to PMS. Grow up.

[LooktotheLeft]

You have got to be kidding! Why is it that when men have a tantrum fit, men associate it with menstruation? Because Eric is the only living man who menstruates. Plus, he DOES wear women's clothes. I have sources

[bingvangorden]

It's not about demeaning women it's about demeaning a macho man by calling him the opposite of what he is, in this case an equally extreme example to his stereotypical machismo and bully like nature. At least that's how I took it.

[hexenpants]

Sexist garbage.

[LooktotheLeft]

Sexist garbage. Not really, just an Eric Cantor h@ter

As for you, bitter much?

[Furby]

Hoyer 1, Cantor 0.

[albanianmomforobama]

Ding...Din­g...Ding..­..knock out!
Hoyer 1, Cantor 0

[LooktotheLeft]

LOL

[Grunty1]

Cantor's well below 0, Furby.

[albanianmomforobama]

Hoyer kicked Cantor's @ss!

[tjdumas]

Eric Cantor should be the poster boy for stupidity

[jane gutowski]

No, that position has been filled by the Democrat congress for allowing Obama to appoint 21 czars so he could bypass them and keep them out of the loop.

[albanianmomforobama]

jane gutowski
Member Since February 2009

[albanianmomforobama]

No...Stupi­dity suits better with rethugs like you jane gutowski!!!!!!

[joetherealist]

So, will the tyrant Obama use that power to start needless wars solely to benefit his friends and cronies? Will he torture people? Will he bypass the Constitution seven ways to Sunday? Will he spy on his own citizens? Will he be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands? Will he ignore problem nations like North Korea, allowing for the proliferation of nuclear (I'm sorry, nu-ku-ler to you) weapons?

Or will he get us out of these wretched wars? Will he give more citizens access to health care? Will he help pave the way for a cleaner energy future? Help our children get a better chance at an education? Return our nation to one that once again earns the respect of other nations?

I'd like to know what you think about this, Jane.

[Liberalforsure]

Boycott faux news!

[Char59]

agree!

[SiberianRat]

Where is it?

[breakingnews3]

Must have been a REALLY short exchange.

[ladybastet]

you have to move forward in the clip to around where the red arrow on the slider is

[LooktotheLeft]

If I were into existentialism I could, perhaps, tell you but, alas, I'm not

[mooph]

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